Beware of Evil Workers

“The dogs” is in reference to false prophets and teachers who teach lies, and not the truth. In context they were in reference to the Judaizers who were trying to convince Gentile Christians that they had to be circumcised, as was required of God’s people under the Old Covenant. But when Jesus Christ died on that cross, he did away with all the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws. What remained were God’s moral laws. We must still die to sin and obey God.

So, what is circumcision? It is a literal cutting away of human flesh. And what is the true circumcision? It is a spiritual cutting away of the sinful flesh via the believer in Jesus Christ dying with Christ to sin and being raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness. By faith in Jesus Christ we are crucified with Christ in death to sin so that we might now live for God in obedience to his commands in holy living, and for his purposes and glory.

“The dogs” may still be the modern day Judaizers who are trying to convince Christians that they need to be more like Jews, and that they need to follow some of the Old Covenant Jewish customs to enhance their faith. But they are all who teach lies in the name of God, in the name of Christ, and in the name of the gospel of our salvation, and who willfully lead God’s people, or those professing to be God’s people, to follow the lies and not the truth. For they teach a doctrine of salvation which is of human flesh, and not of God.

And some of them have been and still are people of renown who are regarded as servants of the Lord and teachers of truth by many people. What they taught, or what they are presently teaching sounds good, and it seems biblical, because they quote Scriptures, but they often take Scriptures out of context, and they twist them to say what they do not say if taught in the appropriate context. For many of them are teaching the teachings of man and not the teachings of Christ, because it tickles itching ears.

So, what does it look like to worship in the Spirit of God and to glory in Christ Jesus and to put no confidence in the flesh? It means that we are following the teachings of Christ and of his New Testament apostles in what they taught as the gospel of our salvation, and what they taught is required of us now by God for us to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God. And they all taught that we must deny self, die to sin, and follow Jesus in walks of obedience to his commands, for this is what it means to believe.

Basically, to believe in Christ Jesus as Lord of our lives it means surrender of our lives to God, submission to him as Lord (Owner-Master of our lives), and death to our old ways of living so that we can now walk in holiness and in righteousness in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. It means we no longer are the masters of our own lives, choosing our own course, but we are now following the course that God has for our lives in doing his will, going wherever he sends us, and saying whatever he gives us to say.

But if you are still listening to “The dogs,” who are telling you that God requires nothing of you other than a profession of faith in Jesus Christ, and that God is going to welcome you into his heaven when you die, based on lip service only, stop believing the lies and believe the truth. For by faith in Christ we must now die to sin and obey God with our lives. For if sin is still what we practice, and not obedience to God, we will not inherit eternal life with God when we leave this earth, but hell will be our eternal destiny.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

My Sheep

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV
An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.


Beware of Evil Workers
An Original Work / July 28, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love